Download or read book Santa and the Cyberspace Plot written by Eric Scott and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is close to Christmas and Natalie has discovered that her big brother Jake claims he has proof that Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny are not real. he intend to launch this proof worldwide on the web on Christmas Eve and ruin Christmas for ever. Oberon Moody, a man who makes Halloween masks dreams of making Halloween the only holiday on the calendar and, with his strange helper, the pointy-eared Dobbin, promises to help Jake in his task. Santa calls in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny to help foil Jake's plot with some pretty funny tricks.

Download or read book Santa and the Cyberspace Plot written by Eric Scott and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dart the Digital Reindeer written by Byron Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a gifted young girl creates an animated reindeer on her computer so realistic that it comes to life in cyber space? We learn that it is not by coincidence that Santa is in need of an intelligent partner in the modern digital world to gather children's wishes and to get their presents to them on time. The fit is perfect and the tale is magic. An underlying message of the narrative is that girls can excel in computer programming and animation just as well as boys. This book is appropriate for young and pre-teen readers. The charming characters and stunning illustrations will appeal to everyone of all ages who love a thoughtful, heartwarming story.

Download or read book Dart the Digital Reindeer written by Byron Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a gifted young girl creates an animated reindeer on her computer so realistic that it comes to life in cyber space? We learn that it is not by coincidence that Santa is in need of an intelligent partner in the modern digital world to gather children's wishes and to get their presents to them on time. The fit is perfect and the tale is magic. An underlying message of the narrative is that girls can excel in computer programming and animation just as well as boys. This book is appropriate for young and pre-teen readers. The charming characters and stunning illustrations will appeal to everyone of all ages who love a thoughtful, heartwarming story.

Download or read book Cyber Warfare written by Paul J. Springer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely handbook traces the development of cyber capabilities from their roots in information warfare and cryptology to their potential military application in combat. Cyber warfare is gaining prominence as a serious tactic in military conflicts throughout the world. And, as the most network-dependent nation on earth, the United States is the most vulnerable. Military expert and author Paul J. Springer examines the many facets of cyber combat—from the threats of information exposure that American civilians encounter on a daily basis, to the concern of keeping up with the capabilities of China and Russia, to the inherent dangers in ignoring cyber threats. This essential reference—the only of its kind to include an overview of other cyber warfare literature—emphasizes the importance of cyber operations in modern conflicts, detailing the efforts that have been made by government agencies to create networks that are secure. Noted experts in the field weigh in on the problems of attribution during a cyber attack, the detection of cyber intrusions, and the possible solutions for preventing data breaches. The book features profiles of theorists, commanders, and inventors; as well as organizations dedicated to cyber attacks, including government and military operations, industrial cyber security companies, and academic centers.

Download or read book The Sacred Santa written by Dell deChant and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Santa is an inquiry into the religious dimension of postmodern culture, seriously considering the widespread perception that contemporary culture witnesses a profound struggle between two antithetical systems -- a collision of two worlds, both religious, yet each with vivid visions of the sacred that differ radically with regard to what the sacred is and what it means to human life and social endeavor.

Download or read book Yes Santa Claus There Is a Virginia written by Kevin J. Frantz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Santa decides to make the jump and computerize his workshop, he finds that maybe it wasn't such a great idea after all ... his computerized list of stops seems to have forgotten the state of Virginia!

Download or read book Santa com written by Russell Hicks and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the good old days, the elves made toys by hand at Santa's workshop, but times have changed. The North Pole modernized, and Santa.com was born. Now, Christmas wishes are fulfilled by robotic candy cane arms and delivered by peppermint drones . . . until Cyber Scrooge hacks the system! Little Yo-Yo the elf thinks they still have a chance to save Christmas, but can the reindeer still fly? And more importantly, will Santa come out of retirement? A modern tale packed with Christmas spirit and holiday humor, Santa.com is sure to be your family's favorite new Christmas story.

Download or read book A Yuletide Universe written by Brian M. Thomsen and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get yourself into the Christmas spirit with this powerhouse collection of Christmas stories from some of the world's greatest writers. The contributors to this Christmas anthology include well-known writers with strong fan followings such as Bram Stoker; Hugo Award-winning author of American Gods, Neil Gaiman; Hugo Award winner, Connie Willis; Anne McCaffrey; Harlan Ellison; Clive Barker; and many others. Curl up in front of a fireplace with this memorable anthology of 16 short stories. Hot cocoa is also recommended.

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Download or read book Weaponizing Cyberspace written by Nicholas Michael Sambaluk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian regime's struggle for internal control drives multifaceted actions in cyberspace that do not stop at national borders. Cybercrime, technical hacking, and disinformation are complementary tools to preserve national power internally while projecting effects onto myriad neighbors and rivals. Russian activity in the cyber domain is infamous in the United States and other Western countries. Weaponizing Cyberspace explores the Russian proclivity, particularly in the 21st century, for using cyberspace as an environment in which to launch technical attacks and disinformation campaigns that sow chaos and distraction in ways that provide short-term advantage to autocrats in the Kremlin. Arguing that Russia's goal is to divide people, Sambaluk explains that Russia's modus operandi in disinformation campaigning is specifically to find and exploit existing sore spots in other countries. In the U.S., this often means inflaming political tensions among people on the far left and far right. Russia's actions have taken different forms, including the sophisticated surveillance and sabotage of critical infrastructure, the ransoming of data by criminal groups, and a welter of often mutually contradictory disinformation messages that pollute online discourse within and beyond Russia. Whether deployed to contribute to hybrid war or to psychological fracture and disillusionment in targeted societies, the threat is real and must be understood and effectively addressed.

Download or read book Terrorism in Cyberspace written by Gabriel Weimann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war on terrorism has not been won, Gabriel Weimann argues in Terrorism in Cyberspace, the successor to his seminal Terror on the Internet. Even though al-Qaeda's leadership has been largely destroyed and its organization disrupted, terrorist attacks take 12,000 lives annually worldwide, and jihadist terrorist ideology continues to spread. How? Largely by going online and adopting a new method of organization. Terrorist structures, traditionally consisting of loose-net cells, divisions, and subgroups, are ideally suited for flourishing on the Internet through websites, e-mail, chat rooms, e-groups, forums, virtual message boards, YouTube, Google Earth, and other outlets. Terrorist websites, including social media platforms, now number close to 10,000. This book addresses three major questions: why and how terrorism went online; what recent trends can be discerned—such as engaging children and women, promoting lone wolf attacks, and using social media; and what future threats can be expected, along with how they can be reduced or countered. To answer these questions, Terrorism in Cyberspace analyzes content from more than 9,800 terrorist websites, and Weimann, who has been studying terrorism online since 1998, selects the most important kinds of web activity, describes their background and history, and surveys their content in terms of kind and intensity, the groups and prominent individuals involved, and effects. He highlights cyberterrorism against financial, governmental, and engineering infrastructure; efforts to monitor, manipulate, and disrupt terrorists' online efforts; and threats to civil liberties posed by ill-directed efforts to suppress terrorists' online activities as future, worrisome trends.

Download or read book Cyber Risk Informatics written by Mehmet Sahinoglu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a scientific modeling approach for conducting metrics-based quantitative risk assessments of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats. This book provides a scientific modeling approach for conducting metrics-based quantitative risk assessments of cybersecurity threats. The author builds from a common understanding based on previous class-tested works to introduce the reader to the current and newly innovative approaches to address the maliciously-by-human-created (rather than by-chance-occurring) vulnerability and threat, and related cost-effective management to mitigate such risk. This book is purely statistical data-oriented (not deterministic) and employs computationally intensive techniques, such as Monte Carlo and Discrete Event Simulation. The enriched JAVA ready-to-go applications and solutions to exercises provided by the author at the book’s specifically preserved website will enable readers to utilize the course related problems. • Enables the reader to use the book's website's applications to implement and see results, and use them making ‘budgetary’ sense • Utilizes a data analytical approach and provides clear entry points for readers of varying skill sets and backgrounds • Developed out of necessity from real in-class experience while teaching advanced undergraduate and graduate courses by the author Cyber-Risk Informatics is a resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and practitioners in the field of Risk Assessment and Management regarding Security and Reliability Modeling. Mehmet Sahinoglu, a Professor (1990) Emeritus (2000), is the founder of the Informatics Institute (2009) and its SACS-accredited (2010) and NSA-certified (2013) flagship Cybersystems and Information Security (CSIS) graduate program (the first such full degree in-class program in Southeastern USA) at AUM, Auburn University’s metropolitan campus in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a fellow member of the SDPS Society, a senior member of the IEEE, and an elected member of ISI. Sahinoglu is the recipient of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Curriculum (TCC) award and the author of Trustworthy Computing (Wiley, 2007).

Download or read book ECCWS 2017 16th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security written by Academic Conferences and Publishing Limited and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2017 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International Conflict and Cyberspace Superiority written by William D. Bryant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines cyberspace superiority in nation-state conflict from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This volume analyses superiority concepts from the domains of land, maritime, and air to build a model that can be applied to cyberspace. Eight different cyberspace conflicts between nation states are examined and the resulting analysis is combined with theoretical concepts to present the reader with a conclusion. Case studies include the conflict between Russia and Estonia (2007), North Korea and the US and South Korea (2009) and Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Aramco attack (2012). The book uses these case studies to examine cyberspace superiority as an analytical framework to understand conflict in this domain between nation-states. Furthermore, the book makes the important distinction between local and universal domain superiority, and presents a unique model to relate this superiority in all domains, as well as a more detailed model of local superiority in cyberspace. Through examining the eight case studies, the book develops a rigorous system to measure the amount of cyberspace superiority achieved by a combatant in a conflict, and seeks to reveal if cyberspace superiority proves to be a significant advantage for military operations at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-conflict, strategic studies, national security, foreign policy and IR in general.

Download or read book Evolution of Cross Sector Cyber Intelligent Markets written by Lewis, Eugene J. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's digital age, cyber threats have become an ever-increasing risk to businesses, governments, and individuals worldwide. The deep integration of technology into every facet of modern life has given rise to a complex and interconnected web of vulnerabilities. As a result, traditional, sector-specific approaches to cybersecurity have proven insufficient in the face of these sophisticated and relentless adversaries. The need for a transformative solution that transcends organizational silos and fosters cross-sector collaboration, information sharing, and intelligence-driven defense strategies is now more critical than ever. Evolution of Cross-Sector Cyber Intelligent Markets explores the changes occurring within the field of intelligent markets, noting a significant paradigm shift that redefines cybersecurity. Through engaging narratives, real-world examples, and in-depth analysis, the book illuminates the key principles and objectives driving this evolution, shedding light on innovative solutions and collaborative efforts aimed at securing our digital future.

Download or read book The Nature of Chaos in Business written by Kiberley A. Webb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market globalization is changing the way companies do business. It is now necessary for businesses to use mergers, joint ventures, and research consortia if they want to stay competitive and increase returns. The problem is that venturing into such partnerships has a substantial failure rate. In many cases, failure is due to poor preparation, inability to manage conflict, and simply being overwhelmed by the complexity of the partnership issues. The Nature of Chaos in Business offers answers to why such partnerships fail and how successful partnerships can be fostered through the complexity and supposed chaos of the situation. Based on models of complexity formulated and studied at the esteemed Santa Fe Institute, this guide demonstrates how complexity in business, as in nature, eventually falls into patterns. Through the recognition and use of these patterns, today's businesses can leverage each other's strengths into powerful alliances. The Nature of Chaos in Business is a fascinating, cutting-edge treatise on the application of complexity theory in business. The "war stories" throughout the book offer insight and wisdom from the real-life experiences of some of the world's largest, high-profile corporations and individuals.